Imperial Tobacco Group (OTCMKTS:IMBBY) Sets New 12-Month High – Here’s What Happened

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (OTCMKTS:IMBBY) hit a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday . The company traded as high as $44.38 and last traded at $44.29, with a volume of 13940 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $43.25.

Imperial Tobacco Group Stock Performance

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.57, a quick ratio of 0.37 and a current ratio of 0.74. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $42.07 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $41.51.

Imperial Tobacco Group Cuts Dividend

The firm also recently announced a dividend, which was paid on Thursday, January 8th. Investors of record on Monday, December 1st were paid a $0.517 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 28th. This represents a yield of 537.0%.

Imperial Tobacco Group Company Profile

Imperial Tobacco Group, historically established in the United Kingdom in 1901 and now operating under the Imperial Brands name, is a multinational tobacco and nicotine company headquartered in Bristol, England. The company’s core business is the manufacture, marketing and sale of tobacco products and alternative nicotine offerings to adult consumers. It supplies products through a combination of owned channels and third-party distributors and focuses on managing an international portfolio of consumer tobacco and nicotine brands.

Product categories include manufactured cigarettes, cigars and fine-cut tobacco for roll-your-own use, together with a growing range of next-generation nicotine products such as vaping devices, heated tobacco and non-combustible nicotine formats that reflect a strategic shift toward reduced-risk alternatives.